Topic: NEWS english - on June 12, 2004 at 10:51:00 AM CEST
Ready To Celebrate World Naked Bike Ride Day?
Saturday marks World Naked Bike Ride Day, and activities are planned in Portland, Seattle, Olympia and Bellingham.
Seattle organizer Daniel Johnson says at least 50 riders have shown interest in his city. Riders plan to gather at Gasworks Park at noon and ride to the Seattle Center to splash in the International Fountain.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 11, 2004 at 5:58:00 PM CEST
Dancing Don miles ahead
You'll never see a pig fly but if you head to the National Agricultural Fieldays next week you'll find one that dances.
His name is Don Rash and as the Waikato Times discovered this week the young kunekune from Waitomo is decidedly light on his trotters.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 11, 2004 at 4:44:00 PM CEST
Japanese Gov't Helps Determine Names
Ever considered naming a newborn baby Beetle or Sardine? How about Cancer or Dung, or even Who?
Those were a few of the 578 additional Japanese characters the Justice Ministry said Friday it might allow parents to use in names for children.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 11, 2004 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
Elephant saved by lack of 'evidence'
A ROGUE elephant, blamed for the deaths of more than 20 people and sentenced to be put down, won a reprieve today as proof of its guilt was insufficient, an Indian wildlife official said.
Villagers in the hills near Jameshedpur town, 120km from Ranchi, the capital of the eastern state of Jharkhand, said the elephant had trampled to death at least 20 people in the past five months.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 11, 2004 at 3:43:00 PM CEST
Woman denies part in fatal 'Jackass' stunt
A British waitress working in Austria has denied charges of urging a drunken restaurant customer to ram his head into a wall, in a lethal stunt apparently inspired by the cult MTV show Jackass.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 11, 2004 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Man Breaks Handstand Record
Russian Walks Down 787 Steps On Hands
A Russian man walked down nearly 800 steps of a hotel Wednesday to break the world handstand descent record, according to a report. Nikolai Novikov took about 40 minutes to go down 32 flights of marble-plated stairs in a historic Moscow hotel.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 10, 2004 at 10:30:00 PM CEST
10M Kids In Slave-Like Labor
An estimated 10 million children worldwide work in slave-like conditions in other people's homes, but the problem is largely ignored in many countries, the United Nations' labor agency said Thursday.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 10, 2004 at 1:14:00 PM CEST
Hong Kong bags elusive croc
Hong Kong conservation workers have finally bagged an elusive crocodile after it evaded and embarrassed some of the world's top croc hunters for months.
The reptile, thought to have been brought in illegally as a pet and later released in a river in the city's rural New Territories area, swam into a trap after a seven-month hunt involving everything from chicken heads to bamboo poles.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 10, 2004 at 12:57:00 PM CEST
U.S. lawyer gets more than 3 years for smuggling Cuban cigars
A lawyer was sentenced Wednesday to more than three years in federal prison for smuggling thousands of fine Cuban cigars into this country and selling them for a fat profit.
Richard Connors, 54, was also fined $60,000 US and placed on three years' probation. U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman ordered Connors taken into custody immediately despite a request that he be allowed to attend his daughter's wedding later this month. The judge said the former public defender is too familiar with ways to flee the country.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 9, 2004 at 3:53:00 PM CEST
Coming up, ready to drink canned wine!
Barokes, a range of wines in 250 ml aluminium cans, will hit the markets in New South Wales in September for 3.99 dollars each.
According to news.com, Barokes canned wine is the brainchild of Melbourne entrepreneurs Greg Stokes and Steve Barics and it was launched in Japan and Taiwan 18 months ago.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 9, 2004 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
Cellphone thief nabbed by SMS plot
A cellphone thief in central China was arrested after accepting a text message offer from the owner of a free spare battery, a news report said on Wednesday.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 8, 2004 at 7:16:00 AM CEST
World's most valuable stamp is worth even more when measured by weight
There's no question the Swedish Treskilling Yellow is the world's most valuable stamp. The last time it was on the market it sold for a healthy $1.9 million US ($2.6 million Cdn).
But Swedish researchers said Monday the stamp is worth even more if one goes by weight.
The Swedish National Testing and Research Institute measured for the first time the stamp's exact mass, volume and density and worked out its value per kilogram.
Since the stamp itself weighs just 0.03 grams (or 0.0009 ounces), and using the purchase price as the measure, then the stamp is worth a whopping 562 billion kronor ($102.1 billion Cdn) per kilogram.
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